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United Capital Plc recognized as one of Africa’s fastest growing companies by Financial Times

Financial Times has released its inaugural list of the fastest-growing companies in Africa. Featured on this list is United Capital Plc, a leading investment bank and Pan-African financial services group headquartered in Nigeria. The editorial titled ‘FT ranking: Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies 2022’ reflects trends across the corporate landscape in the continent, spotlighting companies that

Here are the Top 5 most produced cash crops in Africa

Tonnes produced in 2019 = 192.1M Cassava is the most produced cash crop by a wide margin. With nearly 200 million tonnes of it produced annually, Africa’s cassava production makes up a majority (63%) of the global total. While cassavas are not well known in the Western world, they feed 800 million people globally. Cassavas

Ghana is 8th richest country in Africa – Report

Ivory Coast and Angola were ranked the 9th and 10th richest countries on the continent. With an economy valued at $514bn, Nigeria was ranked the richest country on the African Continent. Following Nigeria in the second and third places were Egypt and South Africa with a total GDP of $394bn and $329bn respectively. Below are

Stakeholders Get Set for Nigeria International Book Fair 2022

Yinka Olatunbosun Lagos is set to host- yet again-the stakeholders in the book industry at the Nigeria International Book Fair (NIBF) this year. Scheduled to hold from Thursday May 12 till 14 at Harbour Point Event Centre, Victoria Island Lagos, the fair is the 21st edition in the annual series of the fair.  Organised by

Nigerian trade-tech startup Norebase secures $1m pre-seed funding

Nigerian trade technology startup Norebase, which is building a single platform for businesses to start, scale and operate in any African country, has secured a US$1 million pre-seed funding round to accelerate its growth. Launched in September 2021, Norebase provides a single digital infrastructure platform for Africa-wide expansion, helping founders and entrepreneurs start, scale, and

Nigerian CEO unpacks Africa’s booming buy-now, pay-later industry

Fehintolu Olaogun, co-founder and CEO of CredPal In recent years, “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) has grown from a niche payment method to an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Companies such as Klarna and Afterpay allow customers around the world, and particularly in the United States and Europe, to buy items whilst paying

‘African Music Not Just About Drums’: Ghana’s DJ Black

One of Ghana’s finest DJs on being an example to young people and what Africa’s A-list musicians are now doing differently. By Tania Habimana Botswana had a taste of fine Ghanaian talent recently, when DJ Black belted out his foot-tappingnumbers on the opening night of the Forbes Under 30 Africa Summit that took place from